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Overview. Henryk (Tauber) Fuchsbrunner (8 July 1917〔Graif, Gideon (2005) (''We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz'' ), Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-10651-0 (p. 74)〕 – 2000) was a Polish Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during the Holocaust, who gave detailed testimony at the end of World War II. Tauber was actually his mother's maiden name. His parents were married by a rabbi and never filed for a civil license due to quotas on the number of Jewish marriages in Galicia then under Austrian rule. Henryks father's name was Abraham Fuchsbrunner and Fuchsbrunner was the name that he was known by. Henryk Fuchsbrunner shortened his name to Henry Fuchs after he arrived in the United States in 1952. Fuchsbrunner was one of five children. He lived with his extended family in Chrzanów in south Poland before the outbreak of war, After several deportations, he arrived at the Kraków Ghetto. After avoiding capture by the German and Polish authorities for over 3 years, Fuchsbrunner was arrested in November 1942 and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz, he was selected for work in the ''Sonderkommando'' at the crematoria of the camp, where his specialised job of stoking the ovens with corpses probably ensured his survival.〔Pressac, Jean-Claude, (1989) (''AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers'' ), Beate Klarsfeld Foundation (p.482)〕 ==Sonderkommando at Auschwitz== The Sonderkommando were generally Jewish prisoners hand chosen because of their health and age to work within the Krematoria in Auschwitz Birkenau. They were separated from the general population and put to work in one of the 5 Krematoria that existed between Jan 1943 and roughly January 1945 when the death marches east began. The work included dragging the already dead prisoners from the chambers after zyklon b was administered by the Nazi chemists to the ovens within the Krematoria, preparing them on rollers to be administered into the ovens, and stoking the ovens for burning. The work was gruesome and many sonderkommando did not make it past the first day. Once a prisoner was marked as a sonderkommando he was barred from leaving the krematoria and lived within, never given the opportunity to mix with the Auschwitz-Birkenau general population so as not to alarm the rest as to what transpired within the Krematoria. Each Krematoria was manned by SS rather than by Ukrainian or regular army. The average Sonderkommando lived roughly three months prior to their own extermination or death to illness. Fuchsbrunner's participation in the Krematoria uprising Fuchsbrunner participated in the Krematoria uprising of 1944 where 3 SS soldiers were killed and a further 12 were wounded, although other sources (Dragon) testified that Fuchs participated the killing of no less than 5 SS guards stationed in the Kremetoria II before the uprising was put down. Fuchsbrunner was later able to get an assignment outside the kremeatoria before being returned to his position as stoker in Krematoria IV in late October 1944. He escaped again and for good 3 months later. 〔http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/sonderevolt.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henryk Tauber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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